pioneer woman with cell phone: The Seasons & Celebrations Index

These entries indulge in the seasons and celebrations and excursions:

The delphiniums are fantastic this year....[See More]

Happy Canada Day!....[See More]

I took this photo on a local garden tour last weekend....[See More]

This weekend was one long (wonderful) photo op....[See More]

Soccer Sky[See More]

My girl and her stuffed baboon. I took this a few years ago but thought I'd lost the...[Read More]

This photo looks so serene compared to how noisy the geese were....[Read More]

We went to the winter light show tonight....[Read More]

It was a fine, quiet xmas day[Read More]

The winter solstice is here.....[Read More]

The girls made a gingerbread house (i.e. sampled candies, made a mess, disappeared before clean-up time). The roof continually slid off until....[Read More]

This is what I woke to at seven a.m. this morning....[Read More]

I use flickr. I use Photobucket. And now I use Hello and Picasa. This might call for a photohost intervention. I'm writing this post from Hello to see what it's like....[Read More]

I have birds on the brain as opposed to being a bird brain. Recently I listened to an episode of Quirks & Quarks on the radio...[Read More]

This is the view from the Lamb's bedroom window. Each morning I help her tidy her room before....[Read More]

This is the Lamb waiting for the bell to ring at school this morning.
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After a few years of attending the annual Oktoberfest Parade, we started to catch on that the same men go by each year wearing very short shorts.......[Read More]

You can't please all of the plants and trees all of the time. Each summer, depending on the sort of weather we get, certain plants thrive while others just do ok......[Read More]

We had 24 hours of switching between sunshine and dark clouds, pounding rain and overbearing light, power outages, and high winds (up to 100 km/hr).....[Read More]

We spent the day at Niagara Falls. It was 326 km of driving, round trip. I always find it so disconcerting/odd to go to such a gorgeous natural wonder and find the adjacent town filled with crass, commerical oddities....[Read More]

The only thing that can make up for the end of summer is fall. Great invention, if I do say so myself....[Read More]

We went to the Paris Fair. It seems to be our annual thing now, marking the weekend before we say goodbye to summer holidays and start school again....[Read More]

The Lamb took this photo at her Gramma's pond. That's her hand holding the lily. Radiant photo luck, that was....[Read More]

Beautiful woman playing violin in a long gown on stilts = my favourite part of the busker festival each year....[Read More]

A few months ago we visited the local butterfly sanctuary and[Read More]

We spent the day at the Science Centre....[Read More]

I had an afternoon to myself (ALONE!) and, after some procrastinating, went for a long hike....[Read More]

We went to an Earth Sciences Museum and the Lamb met her ideal pet: a baby dinasaur....[Read More]

Ya sure, I love the drive the Lake. I love arriving at the Lake and all of the sounds. The water. The gulls. The voices. The wind....[Read More]

I came in from the garden to put on some sunscreen and get some water. There was an email from Alice. I started thinking about her chemotherapy treatments....[Read More]

I promised myself I would finally get some weeding done today whether it was raining or not: a few quick trips to the backyard to pick raspberries recently had confirmed that it was becoming a jungle back there....[Read More]

While the other ten million grasshoppers were leaping about, a few kindly posed for me....[Read More]

I am obsessed with a bare field near our house. It used to be a corn field. Now it's going to be....[Read More]

We spent the day at Lake Huron. The water is always quite cold until late August....[Read More]

It was a cool, dull day outside but things were hopping in the garden.[Read More]

Yesterday didn't work out as planned. Kristina became ill just as they were setting out on their trip, and everyone returned home....[Read More]

In summer, the song sings itself.
--William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)....[Read More]

We're in a heat wave and need rain. The old plants are hanging in there. The newly planted ones are fading away. Everywhere but this quarter-sun side lawn, the grass is brown....[Read More]